Documentary film chronicling the history of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Interviews with Mildred Scott Olmsted and Kay Camp are interspersed with film clips and still images. The organization's history is reviewed from its founding during World War I through the 1980s. Members are shown marching for women's suffrage in the United States, sending delegations to world capitals, and visiting sister organizations in both North and South Vietnam. Olmsted speaks about the early days of the organization, Jane Addams and Emily Green Balch's Nobel Peace prizes, and the birth of the disarmament movement. Camp speaks about the later years and how going "to the source" of world conflicts is important. WILPF has sent delegations to Cuba, Chile, Guatemala, and many other countries where U. S. intervention created hardship. Camp relays that at one point WILPF was the target of the FBI while hosting a delegation of Soviet women. She says an organization like WILPF is ripe for "witch hunts," just as Olmsted says they were accused of being "Commies" in an earlier era. The WILPF's actions and the larger peace movement is shown to be tied in with other movements throughout the decades: women's suffrage, anti-war, anti-nuclear, Civil Rights, and Women's Rights.
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